October 2010 - Development - lists.drupal.org

problems using sites.php
by Lluís Forns 08 Oct '10

08 Oct '10

I have a working drupal6 site online and now I want to work with it offline. I was trying to achieve this using sites.php, but it don't work. I am sure sites.php is read because if I add die("message"); in it I read the message, but it don't work. The content of the file is: $sites = array( // 'www.example.cat/site_drupal' => 'www.example.cat', //ONLINE 'localhost/site_drupal' => 'www.example.cat', //localhost ); Any hint? thanks. -- *Les normes hi són perquè hi pensis abans de saltar-te-les *La vida és com una taronja, què esperes a exprimir-la? *Si creus que l'educació és cara, prova la ignorància. *La vida és com una moneda, la pots gastar en el que vulguis però només una vegada. *Abans d'imprimir aquest missatge, pensa en el medi ambient.

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Drupal 7 API Change notification: Four small-ish changes
by Randy Fay 07 Oct '10

07 Oct '10

*We try to notify this list when API changes are made in Drupal 7, so contrib and custom developers have a chance to fix their code before they have the pain of figuring out why it's broken. *(issue <http://drupal.org/node/140783>) Select elements in forms now require a default value by default. In the past, #required on a select element was kind of silly. Now it's on by default. So if you have a select element which is not supposed to allow submission without having a selection chosen, you have to set #required = FALSE. *Look carefully at this one if you have a select element in a form that you do not want to be #required.* (issue <http://drupal.org/node/844186#comment-3486946>) Database "merge queries" have changed syntax. If you used MergeQuery::updateExcept() in a merge query, you'll want to see the issue. *Look carefully at this one if you have a MergeQuery and use updateExcept(),* (issue <http://drupal.org/node/907690>) Meaning of MENU_CALLBACK has changed. It is only to be used for paths that are api callbacks only. If you're using it in any other context, of have child paths, things may break. *Look carefully at this one if you registered a MENU_CALLBACK menu item with hook_menu() that is not a plain vanilla path callback.* (issue <http://drupal.org/node/358437#comment-3503006>) Modules support a text format and format ID will need to deal with the fact that 0 is now an invalid format; NULL must be used instead. *Look carefully at this one if your module's schema has a 'format' column.* -- Randy Fay Drupal Module and Site Development randy(a)randyfay.com +1 970.462.7450

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hook_form_alter() node_type_form validation and persistence
by Eric Schaefer 06 Oct '10

06 Oct '10

Hi List! Maybe I just can't see the forest for the trees: In scheduler.module (http://drupal.org/project/scheduler) in scheduler_form_alter() the following code can be found (D6): if ('node_type_form' == $form_id) { $form['workflow']['scheduler'] = array( '#type' => 'checkbox', '#title' => t('Enable scheduled (un)publishing'), '#default_value' => variable_get('scheduler_'. $form['#node_type']->type, 0), '#description' => t('Check this box to enable scheduled (un)publishing for this node type.') ); $form['workflow']['scheduler_touch'] = array( '#type' => 'checkbox', '#title' => t('Alter published on time'), '#default_value' => variable_get('scheduler_touch_'. $form['#node_type']->type, 0), '#description' => t('Check this box to alter the published on time to match the scheduled time ("touch feature").') ); } I am trying to understand this. I can't figure out how the values of the two checkboxes get validated and persisted back to "scheduler_story" and "scheduler_touch_story". Is there some magic involved that guesses the variable names from $form['workflow']? How would I add my own fieldset? Thanks, Eric

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Specifying .tpl.php file locations
by Richard Morse 05 Oct '10

05 Oct '10

Hi! This may be the wrong forum to ask this question; if so, please let me know where I should be directing this question. I am developing a theme, and would like to use the system provided 'block.tpl.php' file for most blocks. However, for menu blocks I would like to use a different .tpl.php file. I can modify the 'template_files' array in theme_preprocess_block() to include the file, and the devel_themer module then shows the file name added to the list of possible suggestions, but unless I have a file called 'block.tpl.php' in my theme directory, it ignores the file I want it to use. This is sub-optimal because if there are any security changes made to 'block.tpl.php' in future Drupal 6 versions, the changes will not propagate. Is there any way to do one of the following? 1. in 'theme_preprocess_block' specify the path to a .tpl.php file to be used, so that I don't need to have a file named 'block.tpl.php' in my theme directory or 2. in the 'block.tpl.php' file, somehow tell Drupal to use the one provided by the system instead? Also, is there some place I should be looking for documentation on how to do this? I've been through much of the Theming manual on drupal.org looking for this information already... Thanks, Ricky The information in this e-mail is intended only for the person to whom it is addressed. If you believe this e-mail was sent to you in error and the e-mail contains patient information, please contact the Partners Compliance HelpLine at http://www.partners.org/complianceline . If the e-mail was sent to you in error but does not contain patient information, please contact the sender and properly dispose of the e-mail.

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custom options passed to url()
by David Cohen 05 Oct '10

05 Oct '10

I have a module which implements custom_url_rewrite_outbound() (in D7, will implement hook_url_outbound_alter()). A user of my module has requested a change; that I honor a special option which changes the behavior of my url alter. For details see http://drupal.org/node/931660. So to be clear, this would be a new option passed in the $option array to Drupal's url() and l() functions. An option not documented on api.drupal.org, but passed through and honored by my module. I actually like the proposed patch, and want to include it in the module. I just wanted to ask here first: does anyone see a problem with me using the url $options this way? Do any other modules do this? Thanks, -Dave

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Rendering Contextual Menus
by Greenman 05 Oct '10

05 Oct '10

How do I theme a menu of options for a specific context? I would like to create a menu that shows items relative to a group. I don't want to mix these in with tasks ( or actions ), and would like to use standard menu.inc functionality. However, it feels like it is not possible to use the standard menu functionality for items that contain placeholders. I can easily create my own item list and render that as a menu, but it feels like duplication of work. I have to do access checks and hierarchy stuff that feels unnecessary. It looks like I have to duplicate the functionality of "menu_local_tasks" but just extract normal items. I am not really trying to have this menu managed by the menu module, I am planning to load and theme it myself. I am working with D7, but I don't think it would be too different to D6 (apart from the local_actions) This has been bugging me for a while, and I have finally given in and decided to ask. I can't help feeling I am missing something, and would love to have end my ignorance. I am going to send this now. Peter

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&$node in nodeapi
by luca capra 04 Oct '10

04 Oct '10

Good evening, I'm writing a custom module, with a call to hook_nodeapi (on php 5.3, latest drupal 6) I update some cck fields, but looking at the saved node page, these fields are empty. Seems that after the hook, cck fields lose their values. function mymod_nodeapi(&$node, $op, $a3 = NULL, $a4 = NULL){ switch($op){ case "insert": case "update": my_fill_cck( &$node ); // here cck are populated // krumo( $node ); break; case "load": // viewing node, cck are empty :( // krumo( $node ); return array(); break; } } Any idea is really appreciated. Thank in advance. Best regards, Luca

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Form adding query parameters
by nan wich 01 Oct '10

01 Oct '10

I have a function that is working fine with query parameters to filter the data, but the customer wants a form to enter the date selections. The form is no problem. But just to make it easier for me, I want the form to set the query parameters and return to the orignal function (menu item) so I don't have to re-code a lot. function stats_form_submit($form, &$form_state) { $start = implode('-', $form_state['values']['start_date']); $end = implode('-', $form_state['values']['end_date']); $g = $_GET; unset($g['q']); $g['start'] = $start; $g['end'] = $end; $r = ''; $sep = ''; foreach ($g as $key => $value) { $r .= "$sep$key=$value"; $sep = '&'; } drupal_set_message("going to $r"); $form_state['redirect'] = url($_GET['q'], array('query' => $r)); drupal_set_message(print_r($_SESSION, true)); } When I do this several weird things happen. First, there is an extra slash in the URL; i.e. instead of "stats/6?end=8-31-2010", I get "/stats/6?end=8-31-2010" (of course with the usual garbagy encoding). I don't know if that is the reason, but te second problem is that the tid (6 in this example) passed from the menu now includes the query string, making it fail the numeric test and not setting $_GET['end']. Is there a better, safer way to return the submitted form data as a query string? Nancy Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. -- Dr. Martin L. King, Jr.

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